Dentro do cânon da TV, havia apenas uma Entidade Cristalina (por exemplo, aquela vista nos episódios Datalore e Silicon Avatar ). Existem várias linhas no segundo episódio que confirmam que é a mesma criatura que no primeiro:
DATA: Trace elements confirm that it was the same entity which destroyed the colony on Omicron Theta.
A tripulação também deixou bem claro que é diferente de tudo que a Federação encontrou antes.
DATA :... confirmed by Lore's report to be an unknown kind of creature, capable of stripping all life from an entire world...
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GEORDI : It's like a snowflake crystal, sir. But much more complex... I haven't the slightest idea what it is, sir.
Mais adiante na escala de cânones, vemos numerosas entidades cristalinas no romance Trek Cães de Órion .
Troi turned to Oderi, who was back on her feet and consulting the status-display band she wore about her wrist. “What is it? What’s going on.”
“The station is under attack by branchers.”
“Branchers?”
“A very, very deadly form of starbeast. Huge living crystals. They fire beams that disintegrate living matter and absorb its bio-energy. They—”
“Oh, my God. Can you show me an image?”
Oderi nodded and tweaked her status band to project a small hologram of the scene outside the station. Deanna gasped at the sight of the familiar, ramified blue forms closing in on their position. They were the same kind of Crystalline Entity that had destroyed Data’s homeworld decades ago.
And there were three of them.
Há também um espécime muito maior visto no episódio de Star Trek Online " A Catástrofe Cristalina ". São necessários aproximadamente dez navios da classe soberana para matá-lo.
